Federal offices and national parks in Pennsylvania reopened for business Thursday, a day after U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to end a 16-day partial government shutdown that idled thousands of federal employees in the state while inconveniencing tourists and costing businesses that rely on them.

Here's one of our most-viewed online photo galleries capturing the competition at the MVC Cross Country Championships.

A northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor says a police officer was justified in shooting a man to death during an early morning confrontation at a Hazleton home.

Bernard Madoff could not have pulled off history's biggest Ponzi scheme without assistance from five greedy employees who helped him lie to thousands of investors and federal regulators, a prosecutor told jurors at the opening of a five-month criminal fraud trial, the first to result from a lengthy probe of the financier's fallen empire.

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A woman who says a northeastern Pennsylvania police chief sexually assaulted her has told a jury she felt she was in a relationship with the man more than two decades her senior when she was a 15-year-old junior firefighter.

These days, tortillas outsell burger and hot dog buns; sales of tortilla chips trump potato chips; and tacos and burritos have become so ubiquitously "American," most people don't even consider them ethnic. Welcome to the taste of American food in 2013.

The American Red Cross encouraged Northeast Pennsylvania residents to register and participate in the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill today by registering at ShakeOut.org.

A Stroudsburg man suffered minor injuries Tuesday afternoon when the SUV he was driving rolled over in a Middle Smithfield Township crash.

Stocks were mostly higher Thursday as investors got back to focusing on corporate earnings and economic data.

Our Halloween contest will be ending this weekend. Enter for a chance to win tickets to see the Blue Man Group live.